Industrial Eden

October 24 – November 20, 2013

Modern Art Research Institute

www.mari.kiev.ua
18-В, Shchorsa str., Kiev
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The main objective of the project "Industrial Eden" is to identify the factors that emerged with the industrial revolution and continue to guide the development of modern society.

The industrial age began with the hope that human life, work and thinking can be arranged with the same easiness as machines’ and cars’ construction.

Since that time, people are more likely to trust technology than themselves. To restore the confidence in own abilities, they begin to act like machines, using a variety of tools for correction of mind and body. This is the origin of all subsequent technocratic attitude to the man that dominated the twentieth century, according to the project curators Andrey Sidorenko and Irina Yatsyk.

Today such ideology has transformed into a futuristic dream of resettlement of consciousness into a computer, outlining a new horizon of social utopias.

"Industrial Eden" is the 6-th project under the Ukrainian platform "New Directions", introduced by the Modern Art Research Institute National Academy of Arts supported by The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine.

More than 30 artists will present their vision of utopia built on boundless faith in the scientific and technical progress. In addition to the exhibition of large-scale installations, newsreel and documentary video of 50-s, photography, painting, there are plans for panel discussions and meetings with artists and curators.

Artcult Foundation has become organizational partner of the project.